KMT Chairman was charged - Political Forum

winter6126 · 02-13-2007, 11:41 PM

KMT Chairman Ma Yinjiou was charged.and he resigned yesterday.but he said will run the election of 2008
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winter6126 · 02-14-2007, 02:37 AM

He was charged to Dip into the public funds.
KMT is "Kuo min tang",it is Taiwan's out-party.Ma is the Chairman of Kuomintang(KMT)

Brother Oz · 02-14-2007, 08:36 AM

And before it was the ruling party of Taiwan it ruled the whole of China, until the communists defeated them.

Sebelius for VP, not Hillary · 02-14-2007, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by neorealist234

since your link aren't in english could you translate it for us?

I don't even know who this guy is or what KMT is...

Like OZ said, the KMT is the Kuomintang. Their leader and founder was General Chiang-Kai Shek. They were also called the nationalist party. CKS was a military leader who tried to unite and rule China. His plans were largely thwarted by the invasion of the Japanese and the fight between the KMT and the Communists.

CKS actually had more men and materiel than the Communists, but basically due to Mao's brilliant tactics and high morale, they basically routed the KMT and the KMT had to flee to Taiwan.

The KMT was the only party in power in Taiwan until about the mid 1990's when the DPP (or Democratic People's Party) emerged. This is a party based upon ethnic differences among the Taiwanese, with DPP supporters coming more from the South (the Hakka). The DPP favor Taiwanese independence. The KMT has always favored re-unification with China. CKS used to think that he could return and retake China, but even after this became impossible, the KMT continued to cling onto their re-unification ideology.

The KMT members today, I think are more closely-related by bloodlines and family history with more recent roots in China.

Sebelius for VP, not Hillary · 02-14-2007, 03:23 PM

If you read the article below, basically Ma has used this situation to his advantage and is well-ahead in the polls to his possible DPP contendor in the 2008 Taiwanese elections.

Ma may have misused the money, but it all went to "social groups" and he did not get a dime from it, according to the article.

Bloomberg.com: Asia

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Taiwan Opposition's Ma Wins Support After Indictment (Update1)
By James Peng

Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou received a boost in public opinion polls after he responded to a prosecutors' indictment for misuse of funds by asserting his innocence and announcing he will run for president.

Ma, 56, quit as chairman of the Kuomintang, or KMT, and said he will stand as an independent in next year's presidential election after prosecutors yesterday indicted him for misusing NT$11.2 million ($340,000) in government allowances.

The former Taipei mayor's support rose to 62 percent of 913 citizens surveyed last night, from 52 percent in a Nov. 18 poll, according to the Taipei-based United Daily News. The survey has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points.

``All these developments will do Ma more good than bad,'' said Chen Yu-chun, a political science professor at the Chinese Culture University in Taipei. ``Now Ma can run as an independent candidate, getting rid of all the burdens of the KMT and making him a victim, which will win sympathy votes.''

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winter6126 · 02-14-2007, 09:24 PM

actually,although he was charged,but 62% Taiwanese support him run the election of 2008.